UFO

See also: ufo and Ufo

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /ju ɛf ˈəʊ/
(US) IPA^(key): /ju ɛf ˈoʊ/

Noun

UFO (plural UFOs)

Initialism of unidentified flying object.
(informal) An alien spacecraft.

Derived terms

UFO religion
UFOer

Related terms

USO

Translations

an unidentified flying object

Albanian: UFO, OFP
Arabic: يُو أَف أَو‎‎ (yū ʾaf ʾaw), الطَّبَق الطَّائِر‎‎ (aṭ-ṭabaq aṭ-ṭāʾir)
Armenian: ՉԹՕ (ČʿTʿŌ)
Azerbaijani: NUO, UFO
Belarusian: НЛА m (NLA)
Bulgarian: НЛО n (NLO)
Catalan: ovni m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 不明飛行物, 不明飞行物 (bùmíng fēixíngwù), 飛碟 (zh), 飞碟 (zh) (fēidié), 幽浮 (zh) (yōufú)
Czech: UFO (cs) n
Dutch: ufo (nl) m
Esperanto: NIFO, nifo (eo)
Estonian: ufo
Finnish: UFO (fi)
French: OVNI (fr) m
Galician: ovni (gl) m
Georgian: ამო (amo)
German: UFO (de) n
Greek: ΑΤΙΑ (el) (ATIA)
Hebrew: עב"ם‎‎ m ('abám)
Hungarian: UFO (hu)
Icelandic: FFH
Irish: úfó
Italian: UFO (it) m, ufo (it) m or OVNI (it)
Japanese: ＵＦＯ (ja) (yūfō), 未確認飛行物体 (みかくにんひこうぶったい, mikakunin hikō buttai)

Kashubian: maniewid m
Korean: 유에프오 (yuepeuo), 미확인비행물체 (ko) (mihwaginbihaengmulche)
Latvian: NLO
Lithuanian: NSO
Macedonian: НЛО (mk) (NLO)
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ufo m

Nynorsk: ufo m
Persian: یوفو‎‎ (yufo)
Polish: NOL (pl) m inan, UFO (pl) n
Portuguese: óvni m, ovni m, ufo (pt) m
Romanian: OZN (ro)
Russian: НЛО (ru) m (NLO)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: НЛО

Roman: NLO
Slovak: UFO (sk)
Slovene: NLP (sl)
Spanish: ovni (es) m
Swedish: ufo (sv) n
Tamil: பறக்கும்தட்டு (ta) (paṟakkumtaṭṭu)
Turkish: UFO (tr), ufo, uçan daire (tr)
Ukrainian: НЛО (NLO)
Uzbek: NUJ

alien spacecraft

Armenian: ՉԹՕ (ČʿTʿŌ)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 飛碟 (zh), 飞碟 (zh) (fēidié)
Finnish: ufo (fi)
Japanese: UFO (ja) (Yūfō), 宇宙船 (ja) (uchūsen)

Norwegian:
Bokmål: ufo m

Nynorsk: ufo m
Swedish: ufo (sv) n

Anagrams

fou

Czech

Initialism

UFO

UFO

Estonian

Initialism

UFO

UFO

Finnish

Initialism

UFO

UFO (unidentified flying object)

German

Alternative forms

Ufo

Etymology

Initialism of unidentifiziertes Flugobjekt, unidentifiziertes fliegendes Objekt, unbekanntes Flugobjekt, unbekanntes fliegendes Objekt.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈuːfo/

Noun

UFO n (genitive UFO or UFOs, plural UFO or UFOs)

UFO

Derived terms

UFO-Absturz
UFO-Sichtung

Ufologe m
Ufologie f

Italian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈu.fo/, [ˈuːfo]
Rhymes: -ufo
Hyphenation: Ù‧FO

Initialism

UFO or ufo (plural UFO or ufo)

UFO

Synonyms

Japanese

Etymology

From English UFO, but pronounced like an acronym rather than a mere initialism

Pronunciation

(Tokyo) ユーフォー [yúꜜùfòò] (Atamadaka – [1])
IPA^(key): [jɯ̟ᵝːɸo̞ː]

Noun

UFO (katakana ユーフォー, rōmaji yūfō)

Synonym of 未確認飛行物体 (mikakunin hikō buttai, “unidentified flying object”); a UFO
- 1988 July 30 [Dec 25 1983], Fujiko F. Fujio, “コマーさる [Monketing]”, in ひとりぼっちの宇宙戦争 [The One-Man Cosmic War] (藤子不二雄少年SF短編集; 1), volume 1 (fiction, in Japanese), 16th edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN, page 53:
  ＵＦＯ (ユーフォー)をみた。家に帰るとさるがいなかった。その以 (い)後 (ご)さるをみかけたことはない。
  Yūfō o mita. Ie ni kaeru to saru ga inakatta. Sono igo saru o mikaketa koto wa nai.
  I saw a UFO that day. That monkey was no longer there when I got home. I never saw him again.

Portuguese

Alternative forms

ufo

Etymology

From English UFO.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈu.fo/
It is uncommon for the letters to be pronounced individually.

Noun

UFO m (plural UFOs)

UFO; alien spacecraft

Synonyms

disco voador, OVNI, óvni, objeto voador não identificado

Related terms

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